In the permission which the Pope has just granted for
the marriage of the Duke of Orleans with the Princess of Mechlenburg, a Pro- testant, is the following proviso : " On the express condition that our well-beloved son, the Duke of Orleans, &c., shall every day pray and exhort the woman who is about to be united to him, and shall endea- vour to bring her back into the flock of the Church ; on condition also, that all the children bout of this marriage, whether mule or female, shall be brought up in the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman religion." On referring to the recorded appearances of lialley's comet, we find that in the year 1230 it appeared, and in the spring of the following year the cold was so intense that the Mediterranean was frozen, and goods were conveyed across in carts. Also in 1606, when it appeared, there was severe frost on the 12th of June, and the succeeding winter intensely cold,—which is a demonstrable proof of its great effects on the seasons and temperature.-11/411 Observer.
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